# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/jose-altafini
# Generated: 2026-09-07T20:03:42.153Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/jose-altafini"
name: "José Altafini"
slug: "jose-altafini"
description: "José João Altafini, also known as \"Mazzola\" in Brazil, is an Italian-Brazilian former footballer, who played as a forward. Although, he began his career with Palmeiras in Brazil, he soon moved to play football in Italy, and is mostly remembered for his highly successful stint with Italian club AC Milan, with which he achieved a great domestic and international success; he later played for Napoli and Juventus, before ending his career in Switzerland with spells at Chiasso and Mendrisiostar. A highly prolific goalscorer, Altafini also held the record for the most goals scored in a single European Cup campaign for over 50 years; he is also one of only eight players to have scored five goals in a single European Cup match. He is the joint-fourth highest scorer in Italian Serie A history with 216 goals, and also holds the record for being the fifth-youngest player in Serie A history to score 100 goals, a feat which he managed at the age of 24 years and 239 days. Regarded as one of the best strikers of his generation, and as one of Serie A's and Milan's greatest-ever players, Altafini had an eye for goal and was quick, skilful and powerful."
tagline: "Brazilian-Italian footballer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Jos%C3%A9_Altafini_(1974).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Brazil"
  isoCode: "BR"
category:
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  slug: "footballers"
profileType:
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  slug: "footballer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q937857"
birthDate: "1938-07-24"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             21.06159238858287
  historical:           24.05230666666667
  currentAttention:     100
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump